Swimming float



Aug. 23, 1932.

c. c. HARRIS 1,873,197

SWIMMING FLOAT Filed Oct. 9. 1951 Club...

O fl c, 77077715.

f wgzim Patented Aug. 23, 1932 PATENT; OFFICE CARL G. HARRIS, OF ORANGE,MASSACHUSETTS SWIMMING FLOAT Application filed October 9, 1931.

The principal object of this invention is to provide a very simpleswimming float consisting of very few parts and especially to eliminatethe side rails ordinarily employed and yet be able to have longitudinalside rods for use in handling it and to serve as hand grips.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear hereinafter.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing in which the figureis a perspective view of a float constructed in accordance with thisinvention.

The float is made up of balsa wood or other self-sustaining wood of avery light and buoyant character. As shown, the float proper is made upof a series of balsa wood boards 10 which may be glued together but aresecured by cross rods 11 extending through them so 29 that the floatwill have the appearance of a single plank of balsa wood. It may berounded off at the two ends as indicated but the sides are made flat.The rods 11 extend into a pair of slide blocks 12, the rods of course 5going entirely through the boards of balsa wood and being secured to theblocks 12 in any desired manner.

These blocks are also secured to the boards 10 and the rods 11 byfastening devices 13 in the form of nails, screws or dowels. Theseblocks are shown as convex on their outer surfaces and each one isprovided with a longitudinal groove 15 into which extends the ends of aside rod 14; of wood or other material. The side rod is secured to theblocks by the fastening devices 13 as indicated.

In use this constitutes a very light and buoyant float and can be usedas a life pre- A server or in fact as a surf board. The rods 14: serveas handles by which the device can be carried on land and by which itcan be thrown into the water, but the pricipal use is to constitutegrips by which the swimmers can grasp the float. By this simpleexpedient a very simple construction is obtained and one containing veryfew parts which are secured together in such a way as to cost verylittle for assembly.

The float does not need to be covered with canvas but it can be paintedor covered with Serial No. 567,927.

a water-proof composition to prevent the en- 'try of water into thegrain of'the wood and between the several boards of which the float iscomposed.

Although I have illustrated and described other and the side onesconstituting the sides of the float, cross rods extending throughthemrby which they are secured together to form a single plank having auniform surface, side blocks on the sides of said float near F the endsand secured to the cross rods, and longitudinal rods or grips mounted onthe outer surfaces of said side blocks and spaced from the sides of thefloat.

2. As an article of manufacture, a swimming float or the like consistingof a series of boards of balsa wood in Contact with each other and theside ones constituting the sides of the float, cross rods extendingthrough them by which they are secured together to form a single plank,and longitudinal rods or grips mounted along said side boards, andspaced from the sides of the float.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature.

- CARL G. HARRIS.

